Performances that give you constant chills

Larry

"Uncle Larry"
Just skipping around Youtube today, I found some songs from The Band's "The Last Waltz"

The version of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" from "The Last Waltz" just brings me such joy....

4 minutes of nonstop chills for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VShpcqd3zE&feature=related

What's yours? Constant chills now...

Levon far and away has my vote as the singing drummer with the best voice.

Rick Danko (the bassist) the way he moves, looks like he's a marionette controlled by a puppeteers strings. What a great documentary....
 
Dream Theater's "Voices" gives me major chills. Especially in the chorus!

And I can say I've had the pleasure of hearing it live twice!

-Jonathan
 
Dream Theater's "Voices" gives me major chills. Especially in the chorus!

And I can say I've had the pleasure of hearing it live twice!

-Jonathan

I was hoping everyone would post links of their favorite Youtube version of their choice...
 
Yeah, Levon's a good singer. I wonder if he'd be better if he wasn't drumming at the same time? He looks like he's working hard.

I have twice Favourited a Joni Mitchell live performance that would have been my first choice. Since the company lawyers keep pulling the video down, I will promote someone else instead.

John Cale's Heartbreak Hotel starts off atmospheric but gets into shivers territory from the piano solo onwards: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Bn0Kq7rls

(this is best listened to last at night)

Edit: PFOG, SIBLY is my fave Zep song - very chilly! Robert Plant needs tighter pants.
 
In the metal world, these are called "headbanging moments".

Headbanging songs are stuff like the breakdown in Psychosocial by Slipknot, Whitechapel's This Is Exile, and other stuff.

Generally, my favorite band has great endings to songs, like Chop Suey!, Soldier Side, and there's a single syllable in the song Sad Statue that's pretty "shivery". All are by System OF A Down.

If any have seen Iron Maiden live in Rio, the finale Run To The Hills gave me chills when I first saw it on Youtube. Pure awesome congregated on a single stage.
 
My list is very large and would require me to do some more research. Soo I just put down what I could remember on top of my head.

Firebird Suite-Stravinsky
Rite of Spring-Stravinsky
The Promise of Living-Copland
In Heaven's Air-Hazo
Jupiter (From The Planets)-Holst
First Suite in Eb (First Movemen)-Holst
Ghost Train (Second Movement)- Whitacre
Frameworks (Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps)
 
Of course, since the one I first listed has hardly any drums in it, I thought I would chose a video with *mostly all* drums in it. I still don't think there has ever been anyone better at playing sans sticks...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY9Lbe2ClH4
 
Every time I catch the local Symphony. I am amazed every single time I get a chance to attend. One of my goals is to catch a concert at the Saroyan Theater. Several years ago they purchased a Steinway grand piano that is said to have the biggest voice of any grand piano they have ever produced.
 
This was easy. This one pulls it out of me every time. When the crash hits at 1:02 and the singer just rips right in, man I tear up. Very powerful music. Pull on the headphones, close your eyes, and let this lady break your heart. It is so rare to hear someone perform with 100% commitment to the moment. She says so much, in every line, without saying one spoken word.

"And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I
don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2CYjcQSUXg&feature=related
 
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Great topic! I have way too many many of these:

Opening tom fill of "Good Old Funky Music" by the Meters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkJyhy7Og9s
Coltrane's entrance on "Amen" from Son Ship (after 3:00): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-mHIVScriU&feature=related
Frank Zappa "Dumb All Over", fill at 2:14: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUAOGt7FmM0
Backgrounds during the guitar solo on "Heartbreaker" by Led Zeppelin (at 3:27): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npoYQMPCOvU
Rahsaan's chicken solo on Mingus' "Hog Callin' Blues" (after 2:00): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv1Yewr6Z5s
The false ending on Weather Report's "Port of Entry" (after 4:20): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdThjOXmC5I&feature=related

The entirety of these:
Ice Cube's "The Product": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd1xxQpXcuc
Stevie Wonder's "Living for the City": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSRyf5G2uI8
"I Loves You, Porgy" by Nina Simone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq5A0YadWKs
Gil Evans' "La Nevada" (unfortunately this cuts out before the devastating pedal tones at the end): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjQyuualA6Y
John Lennon's "Mother": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTkc1aKAVYY

And just for fun: the band entrance on "Sweat Loaf" by the Butthole Surfers (after 1:20): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkJyhy7Og9s
 
Great thread! This is what music is all about IMO.

Today my neighbour told me she'd heard someone playing a cover of Perfect Day on their stereo and wondered if I knew anything about it. She said she loved it and just had to have it. That was from our demo last month. I'm stoked (especially since that was the one that most people here who heard the songs liked least). Is there anything better than knowing your music has given pleasure to someone?

Todd, talking of Trane, some months ago Ken put me on to Trane's Alabama (now in my YouTube Favourites). The sombre, plaintive early sections leading to the intensity of the finale are to die for. And Amen is killer. The interplay between piano and drums is a knockout ... then Trane roars in and Elvin goes insane - yeah!

And yeah, Spreggy, Great Gig In the Sky ... one of the great cheek tinglers of all time for me :)

Another great Floyd cheek-tingling screamer, Careful with That Axe, Eugene.

The atmosphere of The Doors's The End really gets me, especially from around 2:20 when John Densmore starts going off, then the silence with jungle sounds.

Another classic: Joe Cocker's cover of A Little Help from Your Friends.

Oh, the drama of it all! :)
 
My ultimate chill-inducing song is definitely:

Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues (Waltzing Matilda)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZmqbcBsTAw (Live version from 1977)

My dad is a huge Tom Waits fan, and this is one of the songs I remember fondly from my childhood. It still gives me goosebumps every single time I hear it. Such a haunting song from one of the best lyricists in music.

It also took on an extra dimension for me because I live in Australia for three years from 2004 through 2006, and Waltzing Matilda is more or less an unofficial national anthem there. I really enjoyed Australia, and I miss both the country and its people, so hearing the "Waltzing Matilda" part of the chorus of Tom Traubert's Blues hits me in that way as well.

I didn't grow up to be a big fan of Tom Waits (although I definitely do enjoy a lot of his music), but I really love the way his music from the 70s and early 80s bring me right back to my childhood (I was born in 1980); they really evoke very powerful emotions in me. I'm sure many people have similar experiences.
 
Opeth's Still Life album. Start to finish. Actually all Opeth after the first two albums is very chill inducing.

The climax of Tool's Rosetta Stoned (after the long instrumental section).
The long instrumental section of Tool's Right in Two.
All of Lateralus (Tool)
All of Third Eye (yep, Tool)
Ok... just all Tool.

Dave Matthews:
Two Step, Warehouse, All Along the Watchtower, The Song that Janes Likes

King Crimson - Starless

Rush - Red Sector A, Subdivisions
 
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